Collection of Kids Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas

If you are looking for an idea for a kids birthday cake, look no further. Whether it's a favorite television character,a super hero, an animal, or a fantasy,your sure to find a cake you'll want to make.

There's nothing quite like the joy of making a child's dream cake come true - and no bakery can make your child's vision come to life like you can.

All the supplies you need and step-by-step instructions are included for each cake shown below. Just click on each one to learn more.

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Ladybug Cake Butterfly Cake

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Cat Cake Spongebob Squarepants Cake

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Monkey Cake

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There are many things to consider when preparing to make a kids birthday cake:

  • cake ingredients
  • experience
  • techniques
  • time

Professional cake decorators have everything at their fingertips and are not involved in the party planning. Many have teams who greatly contribute to the successful execution of elaborate, time-consuming cakes.

If you are making a party and making you child's cake, you have a completely separate set of circumstances to consider when planning the type of cake you make. You will find a broad range of techniques for every kind of kids birthday cake when you surf the internet, but the one you choose to make should depend on your own situation.

Finding a theme is not so difficult -- you know what your child's interests are. I often refer to a picture book or the box a toy came in for design ideas. These days, any photo can be found on the internet.

So, what are the major concerns for having your kids birthday cake come out successfully? Who is the audience? If the cake is to be eaten by children only, they often prefer the standard yellow or chocolate cake recipe with either buttercream or chocolate icing.

The time your cake will take to make varies with the number of colors you'll need to tint the icing and how complicated your details are. All decorating mediums are effected by heat and humidity; therefore, you should consider whether the cake is being served indoors or out.

If you are feeding company with a more sophisticated palette, you may prefer to fill the cake with mousse or pudding, or another filling that may require refrigeration. I personally prefer to make my cakes as tasty as possible, and need to return my cake to refrigerator before the filling softens. If the filling softens up on you, the layers will slip and slide, wrecking the finish of the sides of the cake and possibly making your cake crooked.

Any cake requiring refrigeration should not be covered in fondant, as fondant will become sticky and loose its attractive finish if placed in the refrigerator.

Once you get passed the decision about your cake ingredients, the question is " how much time do I have?" Are you cooking for the party or bringing the cake to a party venue? If you are planning the whole party, you'll likely be cooking and cleaning feverishly beforehand, so the mess that goes along with cake decorating can become overwhelming. Keep your cake simple to avoid being rushed to finish the cake.

The quickest way to put a cake together is to use a birthday cake topper or an edible cake image. This is not the ideal time to try out new techniques nor to imitate a complicated professional-style cake. It can be stressful! But, if you make chocolate, gum paste or royal icing decorations in advance, putting the cake together can be greatly simplified.

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Beauty and the Beast Cake  starstarstarstarstar



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Used Gold shimmer dust and painted on pattern.

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Rose  starstarstarstarstar



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Skateboard Cake  starstarstarstarstar



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Schalk's Lorry Cake  starstarstarstarstar



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Giraffe Cake  starstarstarstarstar


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Whimsical Fun  starstarstarstarstar


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Hanna's Fairy Castle Tree House  starstarstarstarstar


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hello kitty cake  starstarstarstarstar


Used half sheet cake pan then cut in half, to yield higher 1/4 sheet. I Then frosted with French chocolate butter cream. Used hello kitty print ...

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I started by making the scales in advance using an mini oval shape cutter ...

M&M Cake  starstarstarstarstar


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Happy Birthday to ME- Grumpy Cake  starstarstarstarstar



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Transformers Jazz  starstarstarstarstar



Basically, I connected the dots made by printing the picture out on paper and poking holes with black food coloring by toothpicks to set a guideline....

Pizza Cake  starstarstarstarstar



This one was easy and fun to make. Marble sheet cake with thin layer of butter cream. I then put a roll of fondant around the top edge and covered ...

Sea Monster cake  starstarstarstarstar



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Tinkerbell(s)  starstarstarstarstar



I made this for my twin nieces' 5th birthday. They specified nothing besides Tinkerbell, so I took creative license. The bottom layer consists ...

Pooh Kids Birthday Cake  starstarstarstarstar


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My Little Pony  starstarstarstarstar

I made a sheet cake (2 layers) and frosted it white. Then I traced a picture of my little pony on a piece of wax paper and outlined it in pink frosting....

sheep cake  starstarstarstarstar

I made it with suger paste.

madison's candyland  starstarstarstarstar

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Dora cake  starstarstarstarstar

Baked 8 inch chocolate cake and 6 inch vanilla cake 3 layers of each. Put them together ice and cover with home made fondant icing. Cut with cookie ...

Optimus Prime Transformer Cake  starstarstarstarstar

Made 3 buttercake mixs in a 14inch cake tin.

I used Buttercream icing on the cake, then traced a picture. Then I pin pricked the design onto the ...

Diego  starstarstarstarstar

I used a homemade marshmallow fondant and an exacto knife to cut and piece this cake. I started out with store bought cake, my sister worked at a ...

Princess Kylee's Castle  starstarstarstarstar

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Kayton's Pink Poodle Birthday  starstarstarstarstar

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Evan's Safari Cake  starstarstarstarstar

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Strawberry Shortcake  starstarstarstarstar

This is absolutely my favorite cake to make. I've made dozens of them. I used plain ol' buttercream icing. Cake was a total hit!

Patriotic Cake  starstarstarstarstar

I made this cake with fondant. I made three different colors of the fondant and kneaded them together slightly. I found some Army characters and vehicles ...

TINKERBELL AND FRIENDS CAKE 1ST BIRTHDAY  starstarstarstarstar


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Goofy  starstarstarstarstar

I made this cake for my daughter's 4th birthday. Goofy is made with cake and rice crispy treats covered in rolled fondant.

Jasmine  starstarstarstarstar

A half sheet cake covered frosted in butter cream frosting and I hand drew with butter cream frosting a picture of Jasmine for my daughters birthday....

Halo Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Princess Cakes  starstarstarstarstar


I made this for my Daughters 3rd Birthday party. She wanted a princess party and every Barbie with a dress is a princess to her.

I used the ...

BASKETBALL CAKE  starstarstarstarstar
MADE IN A DOME PAN AND COVERED IN BUTTERCREAM ICING

SPIDER MAN  starstarstarstarstar

WHITE SHEET CAKE WITH BUTTERCREAM ICING FOR BASE. SPIDER MAN FACE IS MADE OF RICE CRISPY TREATS AND COVERED IN BUTTERCREAM.

eeyore  starstarstarstarstar

I made this Eeyore cake with two rectangular plain sponges. I did an a4 sketch on card of what I wanted cut out then used it as template to cut both ...

Spongebob Squarepants  starstarstarstarstar
I made using 4 sheet cakes cut in half and stacked on top of each other. Then I covered it in yellow fondant. I then sculpted the arms and legs and ...

Cookie Monster cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Thomas the Tank Engine  starstarstarstarstar
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Gravedigger Monster Truck Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Dragon Castle  starstarstarstarstar
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I started with a few round layers stacked together, and carved away ...

Magic Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Happy clown Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Happy Birthday Bear Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Magic Hat with Rabbit Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Transformers Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Ben 10 Watch cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Sponge Bob Cake2  starstarstarstarstar
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Present cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Monkeying Around  starstarstarstarstar
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Ava's Tinkerbell cake  starstarstarstarstar



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It took 4 boxes of cake mix, and ...

Cheeky Monkey Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Mystery Machine Cake  starstarstarstarstar
Many cakes baked and carved. Iced with swiss buttercream and decorated with fondant.

R2D2 Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Fisher Price Little Girl Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Thomas the Tank Engine  starstarstarstarstar
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3-D Blues Clues Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Dolly Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Winter Wonderland Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Slumber Party Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Wii Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Super Mario Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Princess Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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When cutting the cake, a rainbow of colours was revealed. I ...

Ratatouille Revenge Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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I ...

Turtle Power!  starstarstarstarstar
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Hamburger Cake 2  starstarstarstarstar
I created this realistic looking hamburger cake for my son's birthday using a chocolate cake mix, a yellow cake mix, Oreo cookie crumbs, Rice Krispies ...

Matthew's guitar cake   starstarstarstarstar
Our son Matthew is a guitar fan and we thought it would be fun to make a full-scale electric guitar cake for him. I took one of his guitars and traced ...

Charlie Mae's 1st Birthday Cake Jungle Safari  starstarstarstarstar
Charlie Mae's Auntie Jen made this delicious cake for her 1st Birthday party. This cake was made with yellow cake and fresh strawberry filling. It ...

Elmo Kids Birthday Cake  starstarstarstarstar
Grandma and grandpa ordered this cake for their little Becca!
This is a two layer 10" white cake with strawberry filling! A 6" round chocolate placed ...

Lego Kids Birthday Cake  starstarstarstarstar
Confetti cake on the inside and fondant used for board and lego pieces.

Pikachu Cake  starstarstarstarstar
José's 19th birthday cake. 2 layer chocolate diabetic cake with sugarless chocolate filling/frosting. Decorated with piped chocolate Pikachu and pokeball....

Little Mermaid Cake  starstarstarstarstar
3 layer white cake with blue buttercream frosting. Decorated with piped (drawn) chocolate characters from the Little Mermaid, a molded happy birthday ...

Bull Dog Cake  starstarstarstarstar
I used one cake mix, and made a Mickey Mouse head cake, cut off the ears,and cut the bottom of the cake off and shaped it. I used the ears to build ...

6 Year Old Girls Birthday Cake  starstarstarstarstar
This cake is easy. Square cake, buttercream icing, fondant cutouts of circles and 6's. I made the bow using Gum Paste. It holds it's shape stronger ...

4 Wheeling Adventure Cake  starstarstarstarstar
I made the bottom cake chocolate. The upper, carved piece is a white cake. I find it is a more stable cake if using white cake for the carved piece ...

Hamburger Cake  starstarstarstarstar
By icing three small circular cakes in the appropriate colors, piling them together, and topping it off with `sesame seeds` (butterscotch chips), the ...

1950's Little Girl Poodle Skirt Cake  starstarstarstarstar
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Circus cakes  starstarstarstarstar
My circus chocolate cake - A double dark milk chocolate cake, add a fudge filling, a chocolate lovers dream!

Circus Cake  starstarstarstarstar
You can use any chocolate cake mix, and strawberry cake mix. I like pillsbury and used 2 boxes of strawberry and 1 of chocolate.

I made 2 10 inch ...

Tweety Bird Cake  starstarstarstarstar
I taped a picture of Tweety on the bottom of my cookie sheet. I taped a piece of wax paper over the picture. I made a double batch of buttercream icing,...

Wii Remote cakes  starstarstarstarstar
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Castle Cake   starstarstarstarstar
You will need LOTS of frosting to make this cake! I would get 10-12 cans!

Bottom: 4 stacked 13 x 9 cakes

Top: 2 stacked 8 x 8 cakes, trimmed ...

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I made this Jack-In-The Box cake for my son Jacob’s 3rd birthday. Ever since he saw a jack-in-the-box at the toy store around the holidays he has been ...

Tinkerbell Cake  starstarstarstarstar



Used a cut out of tinkerbell's face from a plate that had tinkerbell on it. The rest was done with my cake decorating kit.

Flower Birthday Cake  starstarstarstarstar


Everything homemade - from the cake to the fondant - this was actually my first attempt at making a fondant cake.

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This Ben 10 cake is close to my heart as I did it for my son who was looking forward to this. The base of this cake is chocolate and the pattern was ...

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I used a Betty Crocker milk chocolate cake mix. The design was from a Wilton cake pan. I made the icing out of Wilton's buttercream icing and food coloring....

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The speed racer car was the first car I had ever tried to make. I used a block or rice krispy treats that I had pressed into a loaf pan, and carved ...

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Hello Kitty  starstarstarstar
I used a 9x13 baking dish and cut out of the cooled cake an oval for the head and ears on the two open corners. Then pieced them together with frosting ...

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CARS CAKE  starstarstarstar
I SPRINKLED OREOS AND WHITE OREOS FOR THE ROADS AND USED BUTTERCREAM ICING FOR THE REST. THE CARS ON TOP WERE FROM MCDONALD'S HAPPY MEALS.

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Chocolate Fudge cake fondant icing. Got image from internet and copied onto piece of fondant strengthened with gum tragacanth and then painted it with ...

Surfs Up Cake  starstarstarstar
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Mermaid Cake  starstarstarstar
Everything is edible except the wire that the dolphins are on. The mermaid and the sea life all are hand molded out of fondant and gum paste.

Ocean scapes Cake  starstarstarstar
To make this cake I used regular white cake mix in a rectangular pan. I set aside a little bit of batter to make a cupcake. Once the cake was cooled ...

Soccer Cake  starstarstarstar
3 layer cake for Katherine's soccer team's party (go "booty bumpers"...lol) The first layer is half white, half chocolate, the second layer is half ...

Burning House Cake  starstarstarstar
I layered four 8 inch square cakes. Then, I cut the top off at an angle for the roof. I covered the cake with gray fondant. Painted the top and drew ...

DRAGON CAKE  starstarstarstar
1/2 SHEET CAKE 2 6"ROUND CAKES

CUT 6" ROUND CAKE IN HALF.THIS WILL BE THE BODY.
CUT 6" ROUND CAKE INTO C SHAPE FOR TAIL.
CUT 2 DIAMOND SHAPES ...

Pirate Birthday Cake  starstarstarstar
Vanilla and Chocolate (1/2 and 1/2 cake)

Fire Truck  starstarstar



I baked two 9X13 cakes, 1 8X8 cake, and 1 loaf cake. I stacked the cakes and used a vanilla pudding filling. I then carved them down to get the ...

The Wizard of Oz  starstarstar


I had been asked to make a sheet cake and a doll cake for a Wizard of Oz themed birthday party for a little girl. I made the "Dorothy" doll and ...

Race Day  starstarstar
I started with a homemade cake. I used a Wilton cake pan and many different colors of buttercream to decorate the cake. This was made for a young man ...

Barbie Cake   starstarstar
Take two cakes and make seperately in two bundt cake pans. I used two regular white cake mixes. I then used rasberry jello and made the cakes into ...

Feed Plot  Not rated yet
We were asked to make a birthday cake for a young man for his 13th birthday. He loves to hunt so it inspired us to make a feed plot. The turkeys are ...

Construction Birthday cake  Not rated yet
This is a white cake, made in a 13x11 pan, with a chocolate cake made in a bread pan added at the end for mountains. It is iced with butter cream icing....

Valerie's Prissy Cake  Not rated yet
I made 1 9in round Vanilla Cake and one 6 or 8 inch.

made the cakes from scratch , let the cakes cool.

In a bowl I made homemade cream cheese ...

Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made a two layer sheet cake with buttercream frosting. I hand drew Minnie on top out of buttercream. The cake is a white buttermilk cake.

Butterfly and flower cake  Not rated yet
This butterfly and flower cake is a 2-layer 8" x 2" chocolate cake. With chocolate fudge icing. I covered it in sky blue colored fondant. I freehanded ...

Birthday's Girl Fondant Hearts  Not rated yet
Chocolate cake with creamcheese filling and covered by Fondant on top

bratz  Not rated yet
hi, i am very interesting make cakes, but I dont went to any cake decorating classes. i always make cakes to my children. now i have good experience ...

Flower cake  Not rated yet
This one actually my first time working with fondant. That's why it's not clean cut...but I am working on it. The flowers are made out of gum paste ...

Elmo birthday cake  Not rated yet
This is a chocolate cake with buttercream icing. this is the 4th cake I've made, first time to carve anything!

SNOW WHITE  Not rated yet
TWO ROUND DOUBLE LAYER CAKES...FONDANT AND TOO MUCH LOVE FOR MY 3 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER!

Mickey Mouse Birthday Party  Not rated yet
This is a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. Mickey is made of fondant as well as the presents, balloons, and boardering Mickey Mouse ...

Bowling Alley Fun  Not rated yet
This bowling alley cake is made with a half sheet cake pan. Chocolate and yellow cake. Chocolate frosting covered with fondant. Everything is edible ...

Second Birthday Dora cake  Not rated yet
I used yellow cake with vanilla butter cream frosting to create this Dora Cake.

Pink, Purple, Orange, Yellow, and Green Marshmallow fondant.

2 ...

polka-dots  Not rated yet
i made 3 different cakes. all different sizes.i made the traditional fondant. i spread it out and cut different size circles. then i laid down the fondant ...

Safari cake  Not rated yet
I made this chocolate cake for my son's 1st birthday using No egg powder (natural egg replacer Brand -ORGRAN)since we are vegetarians. I covered the ...

tinkerbell rose cake   Not rated yet
I made this Tinkerbell cake for a friends little girls birthday, it had yummy sponge layered with fresh cream frosting, and fresh fruit, she said it ...

handbag cake   Not rated yet
Made this for a girls sweet 16th, hand made bag at the front.

Pirate Ship  Not rated yet
The cannons are tootsie rolls and cannon balls are whoppers. The railing is licorice and the sails I created on the computer. Little Lego men were ...

Rainbow cake  Not rated yet
The cake is a 1 layer strawberry cake from a box. I frosted it with with homemade buttercream frosting. and piped the rainbow outline by transferring ...

Bionicle Cake for my Bionicle crazed 6 year old!!  Not rated yet
I made a chocolate cake in a large sheet pan and iced it using black Wilton icing paste. I made my own fondant and coloured it golden yellow with the ...

Mrs. Potts beauty and the beast  Not rated yet
mrs potts is a wheat free gluten free dairy free egg free.... etc, a friend with multiple allergies had a belle party (even though she turned 32) dairy ...

3D Barnyard  Not rated yet
I was doing a lot of experimenting at this stage (not having had any classes at all in cake decorating) and ended up using royal icing on the whole ...

Pink/Brown Princess cake  Not rated yet
pound cake with strawberry buttercream (yum) and checkerboard fondant. Tiara was dried fondant, as were flowers. Cupcakes were yellow cake with strawberry/...

Iguana Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was for my BFF's son's 7th birthday. He requested an iguana and after a lot of research on iguanas, I decided the baby iguanas were the best ...

Bumblebee Autobot Cake  Not rated yet
Bumblebee in car form is made completely out of fondant, and painted with food coloring. Cake is alternate layers of chocolate fudge and french vanilla ...

Hannah Montana Guitar cake  Not rated yet
I cut out a guitar shape from a 3 in sheet pan. Cut out some fondant pieces. covered the guitar in buttercream icing. I used cake board to cut out the ...

Candyland kastle  Not rated yet
I started this cake with 2 12" round cakes, 2 10" round cakes and a 6" square cake.then i took some extra cake mix and filled 5 ice cream cones 3/4 ...

Fire truck cake  Not rated yet


This was two loaf tin cakes, made from a standard chocolate cake mix. one of the cakes formed the truck, the second cake was cut to make the cabin ...

Special agent oso  Not rated yet
The cake mix was a basic chocolate mix, you can use any cake recipe really. I made ! large round cake for the bulk of this face, and I made a smaller ...

Guitar Hero Cake   Not rated yet


I used a 9x13 sheet pan and cut my design out. I frosted it with black buttercream icing, yellow and red for the flame. I used different color ...

Spring Cake  Not rated yet


Use a regular cake mix "vanilla", make my own icing because got better consistency for the flower and color flow to make the birds and a lot of ...

1st Birthday  Not rated yet


baked and iced a 6 inch round and a 10 inch round .piped ruffled borders,. trimmed with candy decorations and stacked on pillars, Sprinkled cake ...

Good 1 Year  Not rated yet


Checkerboard chocolate & white cake inside. Fondant tire and road. It was for my son Marshall's first birthday so instead of putting the "goodyear"...

All Star Sports Birthday Cake  Not rated yet


I started with 2 side by side 9x13 cakes made from scratch. I covered a small layer of grass green icing over the two cakes first. I used two ...

Rory's 2nd birthday - My little pony carousel Cake  Not rated yet



Used a rose tip and ribboned the entire top of the cake
Used pink shimmer

Matchbox Car  Not rated yet



Carved shape from 1/2 sheet cake pan x2

iced in white - sprayed black

Fondant for wheels and stripes

Roller Skate Cake  Not rated yet


Using a 9" x 13" sheet cake pan, bake pound cake with flavoring, I used Raspberry. Let cool completely. Cut sheet cake into 3 equal pieces and stack,...

Pirate Cake  Not rated yet



I made this cake for my granddaughter's 4th birthday. She loved it!
I used i/2 sheet cake-marble for the ocean and the sand. Iced the ocean ...

Elephant Cake  Not rated yet



3 layer dark chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese filling. Decorated with chocolate frosting, elephants drawn in melted chocolate, white ...

Animal Cake  Not rated yet



3 layers of chocolate cake with strawberry filling and blue buttercream frosting. Decorated on a cake board covered with crushed graham crackers ...

Shark Cake  Not rated yet


2 layers of brownie separated by a layer of chocolate chip cookie dough. Frosted with blue buttercream and white piping. Decorated with molded ...

Sleeping Beauty Cake  Not rated yet



2 layer chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling. The design on top and the chocolate fairy lollipops are drawn in merckens chocolate ...

spongebob  Not rated yet



sheet cakes and fondant

Victory in Jesus  Not rated yet



My son is an 8th grader at a Christian school in Harlingen, Tx. The theme this year is Victory in Jesus. The mascot for the theme is a race ...

Roller Coaster Cake II  Not rated yet



This was the next birthday cake for my roller coaster obsessed kids. I decided to go big with this one so I made two cakes (just from a box recipe)...

Roller Coaster Cake I  Not rated yet



This was my first time making a 3D cake. The cake itself is just a boxed recipe. The frosting is a simple butter cream that we like. The roller ...

Lula Party  Not rated yet


I used a 13x9 bake pan and coated it. Then I made my cake mix as directed on the box for a 13x9 cake. I poured the cake in the pan and cooked ...

Diego's Adventure Cake  Not rated yet



I MADE THIS CAKE FOR MY SON HAYDEN'S 3RD BIRTHDAY. I USED A REGULAR RECTANGLE CAKE PAN AND THEN A SMALL LOAF PAN. I USED A CREAM CHEESE FROSTING ...

Cars McQueen  Not rated yet



This was my 3 year old's birthday cake. He is a Cars fan and had to have McQueen. I used a simple frozen buttercream transfer method for McQueen....

Pirate Ship Cake  Not rated yet



I used two rectangular plain sponge cakes, and built up the structures on the bow and stern (and the treasure chest) with lamingtons - a good ...

Daisy  Not rated yet



Simple Star Tip, with cake topper

subway sub  Not rated yet


I used 2 9x13 cakes first. I then cut away and molded the top portion of the sub "roll" with a serated knife. I frosted the bottom portion of ...

DORA  Not rated yet


This cake is very easy to make. I made it for my grandaughters birthday as she just loves Dora! You can use any cake mix or a cake recipe of your ...

Topsy Turvy 15-year-old  Not rated yet



This was the second topsy turvy cake I attempted. I made two tiers - three layers each of butter cake and the top tier out of dark chocolate ...

Deputy First Year  Not rated yet



I made this cake for my littlest nephew, Sawyer, for his first birthday bang that was thrown inside of my parents barn. The bottom tier is made ...

HELLO KITTY  Not rated yet



FIRST I FOUND A CAKE AND FROSTING RECIPE ONLINE...BETTER TO MAKE IT FROM SCRATCH THEN FROM THE BOX. THEN LOOKED FOR A DESIGN OF WHAT KIND OF CHARACTER ...

Simple Castle Cake  Not rated yet



I made this cake for my son Akkshay's 4th birthday. I have only round shaped baking tray and a tradional oven. so i made 4 round Pound cakes and ...

Clothes on the line baby shower cake  Not rated yet



I used blue food coloring and white cake (from a box) to make the inside. I mixed the cake mix as stated in instructions and poured 1/2 into thin ...

Balloon Treasure  Not rated yet


I actually made this for an adult. It was after hurricane Ike and I figured we all needed some fun! The cake is chocolate and iced with butter cream....

Hannah Montana Cake  Not rated yet


5 Cake mixes with added vanilla. Homemade Buttercream icing with 3/4 shortening and 1/4 unsalted butter.

Lego Cake  Not rated yet



I used my 1/2 sheet cake pan, cut the "bricks", used rolled fondant and used a biscuit cutter for the bumps on the top of each Lego! The 7-year ...

Fairytopia eddible pic  Not rated yet


I made this chocolate cake birthday for my 6 year old daughter. 2 layer sheet cake triple choc with choc fudge frosting in middle. I covered with ...

Elmo Birthday Cake  Not rated yet



I used a white cake recipe and a 13x19 cake pan along with an Elmo mold cake pan for the top. After baking and icing the bottom layer with a buttercream ...

Princess Belle  Not rated yet


The Picture using tehnik Frosezen ButterCream Transfer and Chocolate Tim
Chocolate cake covering with ButterCream Milk and sprinkle..

Princess Barbie Cake  Not rated yet


I made the one cake (Chocolate sponge) in a pudding bowl and placed it on top of one that had been made in a 7' tin.
Cut both cakes in half and ...

Bear  Not rated yet


Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Whipped Cream.

Circus Clowns  Not rated yet



I made this cake for my sons 7 B-day, He had a Circus theme B-day. It worked out great.....

Spider - Spiderman  Not rated yet

So Easy. Bake a norman cake and cut it to size!
Then just ice with colour of choice and put some decorations..


I have so many pics of cakes ...

Backyardigans Bash  Not rated yet

I made a marble 10in round, covered in white fondant, then I made a 6in round, cut it in half, made blue tinted fondant, and covered that. I then ...

COOKIE MONSTER FOR MY MONSTER  Not rated yet

I used an oval cake pan and mini muffins pan. I used a star tip to cover the oval in blue to look like fur. The 2 mini muffins are frosted white and ...

Charlie's Wall E Birthday Cake  Not rated yet

Wilton Wall E Pan. Made a yellow cake & butter cream frosting. Had trouble getting RED (RED)& BLACK (BLACK).

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 1st Birthday!  Not rated yet

Base cake - 16x16 square chocolate cake w/ buttercream frosting.
The cake for the main clubhouse was made with a dollcake pan also w/ buttercream ...

Noah's ark  Not rated yet

About 2 months before making this cake I made the animals, trees and Noah from royal icing piped onto waxed parchment paper with outlines traced on ...

Wall-E Birthday cake  Not rated yet

I used a 14x10 cake tin
3 buttercake mix and ice with solite (purchase from cake store)buttercream icing. Pin prick a picture onto the icing make ...

Ninja turtle   Not rated yet

I made this Ninja Turtle Cake for my son's 5th birthday.

One of my first attempts at cutting out my cakes.I did this cake in no time. I used a ...

Boots Cake  Not rated yet

Made a 14 inch buttercake. Cover it with buttercream icing.

Traced a picture from a colouring book.
Pin pricked it onto the cake then coloured ...

Finding Nemo  Not rated yet

2x 14inch kids birthday cake tin
Buttercake mix (quantity for 2x14inch tins)
Raspberry Jam (1 cup)
Butter icing ((small amount of copha added)
Orange ...

Jack on the Farm  Not rated yet

The base cake was a 1/2 sheet of vanilla. The barn was formed from Rice Krispy treats. To make the siding, I used browns and black to make a marbled ...

Birthday Bowling Theme  Not rated yet

The cakes are an 10'x 8' round cake.
Strips ; diamond shapes ; circles are done with foundant..
Bowling Pins and Bowling Balls made with foundant ...

Dump Truck   Not rated yet
This was probably the easiest, yet my favorite cake to make. I just crumbled a chocolate cake into dirt sized pieces and mixed in some gummy worms and ...

Football  Not rated yet
Chocolate cake mix, poured most of the mix into sheet pan and the rest into a circular pan for the football and ground, positioned football (cut from ...

Little Einsteins Rocket Cake  Not rated yet
I used a 1.5 quart baking dish for the top dome and an 8" round for the base. The engines are made of twinkies.

xtreme chocolate cake  Not rated yet


This is a deep rectangle eggless chocolate cake covered in 2 layers of Fondant icing. Top layer of fondant is coloured with Capri Blue colour gel....

spongebob  Not rated yet

I cooked a square cake, took a spongebob party plate, and made the cake from the plate.

Here's a spongebob cake idea that's so easy, you'll feel ...

Little Bo Peep  Not rated yet

I'm In Year 9 At High School And I Do Cake Decorating As A Subject. We Made Fruit Cakes Then Covered Them With Alomond Icing And White Icing. I Then ...

Dora the Explorer  Not rated yet
No gumpaste was involved, so it is very easy job. The dora topper base is green and I made the baseline less obvious by using a generous sprinkle of ...

Rylee's 1st birthday cake  Not rated yet

As this was my very first attempt at ever decorating a cake..I kept it simple. I bought 2 ready made sponges. I layered them and filled with whipped ...

Winnie the Pooh & Co.  Not rated yet

Chocolate cake with filling made of buttercream and apricot jam, covered in fondant and decorated with pastillage.

Tractor Cake  Not rated yet

This is a sheet cake with butter cream frosting and crazy candy decorations. The only thing that is not edible is the tractor. I ran out of time and ...

Casey Cat Cake  Not rated yet

I used a sheet cake (Chocolate & Cherry Chip)then drew my cat onto the cake with edible marker, covered in whipped icing then hand colored pink fondant....

Birthday Safari  Not rated yet
The cake was a vanilla pound cake baked in a 12x12 pan reserving a small amount of batter which was baked in an oven proof bowl. I used the small cake ...

Go Diego Go!!!  Not rated yet
This is a cake that I made for the son of a friend of mine. He loves Diego and the party had more children than the cake pan servings so I put Diego ...

Dora Fairytale Princess Cake  Not rated yet
My 3 year old absolutely loves Dora, so it was no suprise that she wanted a Dora Fairytale Cake. I used a Dora cake tin and added a party hat and used ...

thomas and m'm's cake  Not rated yet
I Made 2 9x13 confetti cakes, carved the train, filled with confetti buttercream.
Icing was trutti-frutti buttercream, and rolled fondant for pieces ...

SPONGEBOB CAKE  Not rated yet
IT WAS SIMPLE TO MAKE SPONGEBOB. JUST A LITTLE WHITE CAKE MIX AND THEN I MIXED ALL THE COLORS TO MAKE THE ICING AND PIPED THE ICING ON THE CAKE.

Here'...

cookie monster cake  Not rated yet
cake mix and cream

Barbie at the beach cake  Not rated yet
For my daughters birthday

rainbow cake  Not rated yet
We started with 2 butter cake mixes made up into a quarter of a slab. We made up a light blue buttercream frosting, iced the cake then placed smarties ...

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